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The
Genocide Education Project Announces The Call For Entries For
Its Aharonian Award
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The Genocide
Education Project is pleased to announce the Call for Entries
for the 2007 Aharonian Award. The Aharonian Award recognizes
and rewards a secondary level educator who has developed a
particularly effective lesson plan for teaching the Armenian
Genocide. The lesson plan must have been used in a classroom
during the current academic year and will be selected by a panel
of educators.
This is the second year that a
national award has been offered to secondary level educators who
teach about the Armenian Genocide. Last year's winner, Ron
Levitsky of Illinois, was the recipient of the award with his
lesson plan—Send Messages of Hope: Postage Stamps and the
American Response to the Armenian Genocide. Levitsky is a
educator dedicated to teaching about genocide and has been an
ardent supporter of the Illinois mandate regarding genocide
education.
"We are looking forward to reading
another set of outstanding lesson plans this year," stated Raffi
Momjian, Executive Director of The Genocide Education Project.
He continued "It was exhilarating to see how teachers were
incorporating this important subject into their classrooms."
The deadline for the award is June
1, 2007 and the full criteria for entering a lesson plan can be
found at
www.teachgenocide.com/aharonian. The recipient will receive
a $500 award, resources on the Armenian Genocide for him/herself
and the affiliated institution's library, and the publication of
the lesson plan on
www.TeachGenocide.com.
For additional information,
contact The Genocide Education Project at (415) 264-4203 or
info@GenocideEducation.org.
The Genocide Education
Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that
assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide,
particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and
distributing instructional materials, providing access to
teaching resources and organizing educational workshops. |
